August 2012 Archives
The Grid:
A new report calls the California governor's plan for 12 gigawatts of distributed generation by 2020 feasible and affordable.
Solar PEIS:
Environmentalist response to the Obama administration's public lands solar plan has been, like the proposed Solar Energy Zones, all over the map.
Concentrating Solar:
BrightSource has been dragging its heels on providing fossil data, and the California Energy Commission is fed up.
News and analysis about renewable energy in California. Blog host Chris Clarke is an environmental writer of two decades standing. He currently lives in Joshua Tree and can be contacted at: rewire@kcet.org.
- Wind Power
- PV and Solar Thermal
- Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROEI)
- Watts and Watt-Hours, Kilo and Mega
- 'Enough To Power X Thousand Homes'
- The Grid
- Distributed Generation
- Conservation and 'Negawatts'
- Grid Storage
- PACE Loans, Feed In Tariffs and Net Metering
- Base Load and Peaking Power
- Capacity Factor
- Renewable Portfolio Standards
- Biomass
- Transportation and Renewable Energy
- Geothermal
